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Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 518
Title:: Theologia Weigeliana
Scope & Content:: Contents: f. 1v: A letter, entitled ‘Copia Epistolae Christophori Weighardi ad Jacobum Breitingum scriptae’; dated to 1601. ff. 2r-110r: ? Christoph Weickhart, Theologia Weigeliana.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 519
Title:: A treatise on the institution and discipline of a soldier
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-96r: The ‘institucion and dysepline of a souldier gathered oute of dyverse auntyent histories very necessarye to be perused in theis perilous tymes of all good harttes and worthye myndes’.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 520
Title:: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 1r-188r: Guillaume Postel, De nativitate mediatoris opus in quo totius naturae obscuritas illustratur.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century-1st quarter of the 17th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 521
Title:: An English heraldic manuscript
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 3r-50v: The arms of English nobility and gentry (6 per page). ff. 51v-55r: A fragment of a heraldic manuscript with arms of Cheshire families (12 per page). ff. 56r-59r: Arms, displaying the types of crosses in heraldry (4 per page); with some marginal additions in brown ink. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English and Latin
Date Range:: c 1450
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 522
Title:: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae
Scope & Content:: Contents: ff. 4r-77v: Gildas, De excidio Britanniae [English translation]. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. [i]recto-2r: Notes about Gildas, printed works and history, added in the 16th century. f. 3r: A title-page added by Sir Simonds D’Ewes, added in the 17th century. ...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c 1550
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 523
Title:: Letters of Sir Philip Hoby, 1548-1553
Scope & Content:: Collection of copied letters dating from 1548-1553. Concerning Sir Philip Hoby (1504/5–1558), diplomat and administrator, the Privy Council, and others. f. 1*r: Pasted title page. ‘Sir Phillip Hobby & otheres Ambasages with the Emperore. R:S: 1616’. f. 2*r: ‘Sir Phillipe hobes letters dat...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English
Date Range:: c. 1616
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 524
Title:: Collection of sermons and theological tracts (imperfect)
Scope & Content:: The collection includes (f. 66) two contemporary additions relating to medicine, a charm (item 1) and a short verse on humours (item 2). Two short chapters (ff. 84, 119-11v; items 3-4) discuss the formation of the fetus and birth in theological rather than medical terms. The cataloguing of the m...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Anglo-Norman, English, French, Old, and Latin
Date Range:: Mid 13th century
Extent:: 1 item

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 525
Title:: The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke
Scope & Content:: The manuscript's former binding is now stored separately as Harley MS 525/1. Contents: ff. 1r-34v: The Seege of Troye [see Boffey and Edwards, A New Index (2005), no. 3139; for an edition, see Seege or Batayle of Troye, ed. by Barnicle (1927)]; beginning: ‘Sithyn that god this worlde wroghte’...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Middle
Date Range:: 2nd half of the 15th century
Extent:: 1 volume

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 525/1
Title:: Detached former binding of Harley MS 525
Scope & Content:: Detached brown leather binding, tooled in gold, with the Harleian arms gold-stamped on the upper and lower covers, and a fragment of the spine; marbled endpapers. The binding was formerly attached to Harley MS 525 (The Seege of Troy; Robert of Cisyle; Speculum Gy de Warewyke) and is now stored se...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Not applicable
Date Range:: 19th century
Extent:: Former binding of Harley MS 525

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 526
Title:: Bede, Vita Sancti Cuthberti metrica (BHL 2020); Vita Venerabilis Bedae (BHL1069); Vita Ædwardi Regis (BHL 2421); fragment of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita Sancti Edwardi regis and confessoris (BHL 2423) and the papal commissioners' report on St Hugh of Lincoln and Avalon; Vita Adae et Evae
Scope & Content:: This manuscript contains five parts: Bede's verse Vita S Cuthberti (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina 2020), copied in northern France at the end of the 9th century (ff. 1-27); a vita of Bede, copied in France or England in the first half of the 12th century (ff. 28-36v); the only surviving, i...
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: English, Old and Latin
Date Range:: late 9th-14th century
Extent:: 1 volume

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